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Rick Beato, the producer, educator and one of YouTube's most influential music commentators, will visit Australia and New Zealand for a series of live shows in October 2026.

August Burns Red have released their latest album Season Of Surrender, unveiled a new visualiser for Cerebral Malfunction featuring Make Them Suffer, and are preparing to return to Australia and New Zealand for a headline tour later this year.

The Original Wailers will return to Australia in March 2027 for the One Love Tour, bringing one of reggae's most enduring catalogues back to local stages. Led by guitarist Al Anderson, the sole surviving member of the classic mid-1970s Bob Marley & The Wailers lineup, the seven-date run will take in Perth, Adelaide, Wollongong, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and the Gold Coast. With Anderson now carrying the responsibility of preserving the music he helped create alongside Bob Marley, the tour is being positioned as a celebration of songs that remain among the most influential works in popular music.

five-date arena and theatre tour, marking her first run through the region following recent international dates with Sean Paul and renewed global attention around her early 2000s catalogue.

Iron Maiden have played the first show of their Run For Your Lives world tour in Athens, Greece, giving Australian fans their clearest picture yet of what to expect when the band returns in November 2026. The opening night leaned heavily on the earliest chapters of the band's catalogue and restored several classics absent from their previous Australian visit.

Oliver Tree confirms an expansive worldwide headline tour in support of his fourth studio album Love You Madly, Hate You Badly, with the genre-blurring artist set to bring his cinematic live show to Australia and New Zealand this October as part of a run that spans all seven continents.

Scott Kelly brings his landmark ‘Year In Space' journey to Australia in November 2026, delivering a rare first-person account of life aboard the International Space Station as humanity accelerates toward the Moon and Mars.